When did Yvette Cooper marry Ed Balls?

Senior Labour party politician Yvette, 49, married Ed Balls on January 10, 1998, in Eastbourne.

The wedding was attended by the cream of new Labour's political and media set, with reports of who was talking to whom being phoned to Tony Blair's aides, who were in Tokyo at the time, the New Statesman reported.

Yvette and Ed and have three children together - daughters Ellie and Maddy, and a son called Joel.

They were the first married couple to serve together in the British cabinet.

What did she say about her husband's time on Strictly?

But while the former politician was a huge hit with fans on the show, Yvette said her husband's commitment to the competition affected their home life.

During an interview with Good Morning Britain at the time, she said: "Early on he was doing a lot of practising in the kitchen.

"But the trouble is now that the dances have got wilder and wilder, he just bumps into the kitchen cooker, so it doesn't work."

Yvette also suggested her husband's newfound passion for dance was part of a "midlife crisis".

Speaking at the launch of his book, Speaking Out, in September 2016, she said: "Be it the marathons, the football club, or the early morning piano practice, and now the dancing, the family have now go to the point of thinking: 'do you know what, Ed, just get on with it and buy the sodding motorbike."